OCR Text |
Show SMITH BEDDING ! ! PLANT BECOMES j LARGE INDUSTRY i A little more than twenty years ago j J, I. (Joel Smith discontinued his ser-I ser-I vices as an upholsterer for the Boyle 1 I'umlturc company, and. with hie I brother, Leonard Smith, opened up a little bedding manufacturing plant on Washington avenue, near the corner of Twenty-third street. From that local-It-, the boys moved to Twentieth street between Lincoln ami Grunt avenues, where they operated thsll plan! until the Ogded W oolen Mills on Canyon road burned down. The Smith broth-1 I era bought the woolen mills site and proceeded to build a bedding factory, I where the Industry has since been In I operation, except for a short time after fire destroyed the f.n tnr The Smith boys began the making of bedding In gden In a very crude 1 way, repairing sjnattressee and other Idiht with simple machinery of the old type, but when they moved to the J woolen mills' site, better machinery was installed and manufacturing was I done on a larger and more extensive I scale. They met with adversity ( however, how-ever, when the plant they had spent all their money to build, was burned to the ground in 1116, I'ndauntcd by ' this loss, and having faith In I igden las a manufacturing center and thor-i 1 oughly Interested In the enterprise, "Joe" bought his brother's Interest in ' the business, rebuilt the. plant and has ;' (since conducted a profitable and ue-' ue-' ful Industry. j The new plant hns been modernised I In every particular for the building of 'the best grade of mattresses on the I market. All machinery Is operated by electric power, which Is generated b) I water power at the factory . Light and ! heat are also supplied for the factory I by the same process. This factory, operating tinder the i firm name of the Smith Bedding com-I com-I pany, now has a capacllj of from flf-I flf-I teen to thirty mattresses a day. and I employs seventeen people. Machinery Is being Installed to doulde the cupa-elty cupa-elty of the Institution, which will en- able It to supply a lurge part of the demand for bedding In the states of' i fttah. Nevada. Idaho and Wyoming, i J It Is a growing manufacturing instltu- ( ; tlon and Is classed among ( igden's pro- greesive industries Mr. Smith Is a director In the National Na-tional Bedding Manufacturing assocl- atlon of the Cnlted States, and is fully In touch with that Hue of buslnes, both i from a local and national standpoint. He recently attended a convention of the national association at Chicago, where aM phases of bedding manufac- I luring was discussed In detail. "Joe" J States that the spirit of optimism prevailed, pre-vailed, the forecast being that 1921 promises much for the Industry. |